Black Friday social media campaigns: Examples, tools, and tips for success
It’s time to get to work on every marketer’s championship game: Black Friday. While the holiday sales…
AI Makes Loyalty Programs Smarter
Artificial intelligence is transforming ecommerce customer loyalty programs. A May 2025 analysis found a “strong positive correlation”…
Refurbished Tech Market Expands as E-Commerce Drives Circular Economy
The e-commerce platform market is driving a major shift in how technology is bought, sold, and reused….
Getting Creative With Small Screens
Over the past few months, I’ve explored how we can get creative using well-supported CSS properties. Each…
Seven holiday shipping strategies to boost sales
The holiday rush brings major sales for WooCommerce stores, but it also comes with higher expectations from…
Meta Ads Pixel Tracking, Explained
The Meta Pixel is a snippet of JavaScript with powerful implications for advertising performance. Ecommerce operators are…
Understanding digital marketing: explaining the basics
When you’re running an online store, digital marketing is at the center of nearly everything you do….
Getting Creative With shape-outside
Last time, I asked, “Why do so many long-form articles feel visually flat?” I explained that: “Images…
Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26
A couple of days ago, the Apple team released Safari 26.0! Is it a big deal? I…
Google’s Spam Updates, Explained
Google completed its August 2025 algorithm update a few days ago. The update coincided with Google’s cancellation…
CSS Typed Arithmetic
CSS typed arithmetic is genuinely exciting! It opens the door to new kinds of layout composition and…
What Can We Actually Do With corner-shape?
When I first started messing around with code, rounded corners required five background images or an image…
36 Ways to Revive an Ecommerce Business
Listeners and readers of “Ecommerce Conversations” know I occasionally depart from interviews to share my experiences owning…
Composition in CSS
Tailwind and other utility libraries have been huge proponents of composition. But, to me, their version of…
Google PMax Unveils Optimization Tools
Google’s Performance Max campaigns place responsive ads across all Google channels based on audience signals. The search…
Should the CSS light-dark() Function Support More Than Light and Dark Values?
One of the newer CSS features that has piqued my interest: the light-dark() function. And I’ve been closely following…
New Ecommerce Tools: August 28, 2025
This week’s rundown of new products and services from vendors of ecommerce merchants includes AI-generated product images,…
Getting Creative With Images in Long-Form Content
When you picture placing images in long-form content — like articles, case studies, or reports — the…
Getting Creative With Quotes
Block quotes and pull quotes are useful for punctuating solid blocks of running text. They’re also two…
How to Prepare for CSS-Specific Interview Questions
If you landed on this article, chances are you might have a front-end interview coming up, perhaps…
Bringing Back Parallax With Scroll-Driven CSS Animations
For a period in the 2010s, parallax was a guaranteed way to make your website “cool”. Indeed,…
New Trust Platform Features Help Retailers Manage Agentic AI Risks
With AI agents expected to account for 20% or more of e-commerce traffic in the next five…
Thinking Deeply About Theming and Color Naming
As a front-end developer, I’ve been pretty curious about how other people code up their websites. So…
New Ecommerce Tools: July 30, 2025
This week’s rundown of new products and services for merchants includes rollouts for cryptocurrencies, agent-based analytics, merchant…